English → Latin
“cot, cottage” in Latin
casahut, cottage, cabin; rural property, small farm; dwelling, residence, housetuguriuma hut, cottage, shack; any primitive dwellingmapāliahuts of the Africansumbrāculumshade, shelter; parasol, umbrella; bower, arbour (shady retreat)eclogaA short passage of writing from a longer work; an excerpt.; An eclogue.casulahut, small cottage; rural property, small farm; vestmenttŭgŭrĭŏluma little hut
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cot, cottage
casa (inasmuch as it affords a shelter to its inmate and his property): tugurium (inasmuch as it affords protection against wind and weather; according to Voss., Verg., Eclogae, 1, 68, a shelter, the roof of which was made of straw, reed, branches or turf reaching down to the ground, and used by the shepherds in the fields): mapale (of which the plur., “mapalia,” only occurs, was a cottage of the African Nomades; the word itself is of Punic extraction): umbraculum (made of foliage): a small cottage, casula: tuguriolum.
A sheep-cot (or sheep-cote), dove-cot (or dove-cote), Vid: COT (= small bed): lectulus (little bed; bed): lectus suspensus (hammock; with Cels., 3, 18).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cot, cottage?
- The usual Latin words for “cot, cottage” are casa, tugurium, mapālia; also umbrāculum, ecloga, casula. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.